{"id":2625,"date":"2013-05-28T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-05-27T23:14:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T03:14:43","slug":"pkp-class-su45-at-sunrise-chojnow-poland-april-29-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/pkp-class-su45-at-sunrise-chojnow-poland-april-29-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"PKP Class SU45 at Sunrise, Chojn\u00f3w, Poland, April 29, 2002."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early Morning Sun on a Classic Diesel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2002, I was on my way from Zagan, Poland to Dresden, Germany with John Gruber and some other friends. Shortly after sunrise, we changed trains at Chojn\u00f3w<\/a>, where rich low sun allowed for some dramatic images of PKP<\/a> (Polish National Railways) trains. PKP was operating a variety of interesting locomotives, and I\u2019m partial to the distinctive shape of the SU45<\/a> diesel.<\/p>\n

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Exposed with my Nikon F3T fitted with Nikkor 24mm lens on Fujichrome slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My journal entry at Chojn\u00f3w made at 6:34 am on that day includes this observation: “We awoke at 3:30 am to catch the 4:49 am [train] from Zagan\u2014beautiful morning light [at Chojn\u00f3w], but the station is decayed and graffiti covered.”<\/p>\n

After I made this photo, we boarded a train destined for Gorlitz<\/a> (and Dresden). Breakfast in the WARS dining car was memorable: “The girl at the counter cooked us scrambled eggs in a frying pan\u2014class act!”<\/p>\n

Exposed with my Nikon F3T fitted with Nikkor 24mm lens on Fujichrome slide film.<\/p>\n

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